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...Adopted the conference report on the $2,100,000,000 Relief bill; sent it to the President for a veto (see below). ¶ Debated a bill to establish a system of home loan banks, before digressing to adopt (53-to-18) an amendment proposed by Idaho's Borah to inflate currency by $1,000,000,000 by issuance of National Bank notes on Federal bonds. ¶ Passed a House bill appropriating $100,000 to send the Bonus Expeditionary Force home (see p. 11). ¶ Adopted the Couzens resolution authorizing a committee of five Senators to investigate...
...things she behaves with dignity and decorum. Nevertheless Oxford, like any Alma Mater, needs the money of her sons. Last week if she was not actually waving her pennant, she was trying a tentative flourish. From Oxford's Chancellor, Viscount Grey of Fallodon, came a proposal to establish that most useful money-raising device, an Alumni Association. It is to be dignified with the name "Oxford Society." Promoted lately at a gathering of "representative" Oxford men, it gained notably the support of Old Oxonian Edward of Wales. Lord Grey addressed his appeal to all Oxford men and Oxford women...
Empire Currency? In Ottawa last week Canadian Senator Alexander Duncan McRae proposed that the Imperial Conference establish an "Imperial Bank" backed by the gold reserves of the whole Empire (which he estimated at $900,000,-ooo) and issue an "Imperial Currency...
...when the Democrats took over the House last December. No professional banker, and lacking expert qualifications, he approached his legislative job as a layman unfettered by technique or tradition. Early in the session he put through the House measures to increase the capitalization of the Farm Loan Bank system, establish the Reconstruction Finance Corp. and expand the credit and currency facilities of the Federal Reserve System (the Glass-Steagall bill). Much of this legislation was put into his hands by the Republican Administration as part of President Hoover's relief program. He expeditiously piloted it through the House under...
...know why Witness Raskob had bought & sold stocks. Senator Couzens, a onetime motor stock investor (Ford) objected to the question, said he could not see "where we are drifting." Witness Raskob said he could not see either. But he explained "for personal reasons ... for income tax purposes to establish a profit or loss." Though readily admitting participation in the Radio pool (TIME, May 30), and a few other bull operations, he emphatically denied any part in General Motors syndicates...